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Canadian Soldiers with Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry hang out in a LAV-3 in a replica of Afghanistan’s Camp Nathan Smith at CFB Wainwright in Wainwright, Alta. on June 10, 2009. The replica base is used to train soldiers for the real thing. Photo by Ryan Jackson/Edmonton Journal

Canadian Soldiers with Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry hang out in a LAV-3 in a replica of Afghanistan’s Camp Nathan Smith at CFB Wainwright in Wainwright, Alta. on June 10, 2009. The replica base is used to train soldiers for the real thing. Photo by Ryan Jackson/Edmonton Journal

A UH-60 Black Hawk Helicopter takes off at Air Field 21 during Exercise Maple Guardian at CFB Wainwright in Wainwright, Alta. on June 10, 2009. Photo by Ryan Jackson/Edmonton Journal

Barbed wire is coiled around the guarded entrance to a replica of Afghanistan’s camp Nathan Smith during Exercise Maple Guardian at CFB Wainwright in Wainwright, Alta. on June 10, 2009. Photo by Ryan Jackson/Edmonton Journal

Tents set up at a simulated Kandahar Air Field during Exercise Maple Guardian at CFB Wainwright in Wainwright, Alta. on June 10, 2009. Photo by Ryan Jackson/Edmonton Journal

Click on the above image to see a 360-degree panorama of a simulated camp in Afghanistan at CFB Wainwright.